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Helping people and getting at the root of a problem seem to be things beyond Republican imagination.
They lost their jobs because MJ is illegal under Federal law. Not much Biden could do I’d think.
First thing to keep in mind is, there is no border crisis. Is there an uptick of border crossings? Yes. It started last summer, and still pales next to the 2019 surge that didn’t make the news.
This is a ‘crisis’ the GQP drummed up to distract people from all the good things the Biden Administration is doing. They rolled the ball, and all the networks and other media chased it.
There is a problem in that a lot of unaccompanied children are crossing the border. The former guy left Biden a serious humanitarian problem with the way those kids were being warehoused. It would have taken time to find decent places to house these kids, and now more of them are coming over. It’s a humanitarian and a logistical problem, and it’ll probably take time for Biden’s people to deal with it in a good way.
If there is no crisis, why did they close the border?
Mayorkas said “the border is closed” and that the U.S. was expelling families and adults…
Seems like a crisis to me.
What would be the dire consequences if they did nothing?
Moving on, Manchin and Sinema are both on board for a $11 minimum wage. And from earlier remarks of Manchin’s, and from what Sinema says at the link, it sounds like that would be $11 now or by next year - and the plan for $15 would have raised the minimum to $9.50 immediately, and to $11 next year.
So it sounds to me like the Dem leadership ought to take this and run with it.
The tipped wage is also a point of dispute. Manchin, Shaheen, and some others only want to take it to 50% of the minimum wage, rather than making it the same minimum wage as everyone else.
I’m not happy about that, but $5.50 > $2.13, so I still think this is one of those ‘you take what you can get’ situations. Improve things for now, hopefully hold the House and pick up a couple of Senate seats in 2022, then finish the job on the minimum wage in 2023.
So I guess the answer to my question, which you didn’t answer, is yes?
Or in case you missed it: why did they close the border if there is no crisis?
What was your yes-or-no question that I didn’t answer?
And will you answer mine? Because without dire consequences of doing nothing, THERE IS NO CRISIS.
Because they’re trying to fix the chaotic mess they were left by the previous administration?
Correct. Yet, RTFirefly claimed that “there is no border crisis”, which is false, otherwise, why would they need to close the border?
It’s not a “crisis” in the sense that “MASSES OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS ARE FLOODING OVER THE BORDER NOW THAT THE DEMOCRATS HAVE OPENED IT UP TO EVERYONE” as many right-wing sources are claiming.
It’s a “crisis” in the sense that the system for handling asylum seekers has been so utterly fucked up that it needs to be rebuilt before it’s capable of handling the level of traffic it used to, and temporary fixes have had to be implemented in the interim.
Or to provide a rough analogy: we’ve discovered that we’ve been driving on a flat tire and are currently using one of those little spares until we can get a new proper tire and check the alignment. But the claims by hysterical idiots that we have been carjacked and the car is now on fire are not accurate.
Seems like they are not doing much.
covid has closed both borders.
(Quoted by yarblek, not said by yarblek.)
That’s certainly true. But “long-term solutions”, even if not blocked by Republicans, will take some time to put into effect. Being furious at Biden for not having fixed the situation instantly seems likely to be counterproductive.
OMG, socialism is here.
They’ll have to wear state-issued diapers and have numbers tattooed on their arms-- FROM BIRTH. They’ll be taken from their parents and raised by Bill Gates’s robots in group homes.
Biden getting ready for his first live press conference… I’m in a zoom class, not available to watch. Anyone who cares to, please give a review.
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Try as they might to seem “tough,” the media did not succeed in knocking Biden off message. Biden spoke in great detail and length to show not only his mastery of the issues but also to suck tension and conflict out of the room.
…The media did not distinguish themselves. By asking about immigration multiple times and echoing the false narrative that Biden had created a “surge," they showed they were more interested in sound bites than actual news. Their failure to ask about the pandemic, the recession, anti-Asian violence, climate change or even infrastructure (Biden had to bring it up himself) was nothing short of irresponsible. They pleaded for a news conference and then showed themselves to be unserious. They never laid a glove on Biden; they did, however, make the case for why these events are an utter waste of the president’s time.
This columnist seems to think that the goal of a Presidential press conference is to bully the President into embarrassing himself or at least catch him in a Big Lie. If they don’t try to do that, they’re failing at their jobs.
Another columnist somewhere complained that there was nothing especially newsworthy at this presser. Uh, maybe that’s because the Biden administration has been holding DAILY briefings and keeping the media informed? Nah, it’s no fun being a reporter unless the President is insulting another head of state, getting into a pissing match with someone, or pulling the US out of an international organization.
Biden is doing what I wanted: making the Presidency boring again. (Not that the issues facing him are boring-- far from it. But he is not sensationalizing them to feed his own ego.)
ETA: like this–
There have been numerous days over the past two months where I haven’t thought about Biden at all. Man, does that feel good after the previous four years.
There was a moment in the press conference where he said something like “I’m going to say something crazy” followed by him saying something that didn’t sound crazy at all.